Joint robustness and security enhancement for feature-based image watermarking using invariant feature regions

Signal Processing

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1431-1445

  Tsai, Jen Sheng ^a   Huang, Win Bin ^a   Kuo, Yau Hwang ^a   Horng, Mong Fong ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Differential entropy; Digital image watermarking; Feature detector; Genetic algorithm; Knapsack problem

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL ENTROPY; DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING; EVALUATION RESULTS; FEATURE DETECTION; FEATURE DETECTOR; FEATURE-BASED; FEATURE-BASED WATERMARKING; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; HIDDEN WATERMARKS; IMAGE FEATURES; IMAGE WATERMARKING; INVARIANT FEATURES; KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; MATRIX; MULTIDIMENSIONAL KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; NOISE-LIKE SIGNALS; OPTIMAL SELECTION; SECRET INFORMATION; SECURITY ANALYSIS; SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS; SECURITY IMPROVEMENT; SECURITY RISKS; STIRMARK; VARIOUS ATTACKS;

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ENTROPY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WATERMARKING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84856114005     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.11.033     Document Type: Article

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